Most Advanced Domestically-Made Satellite Completed
IRAN NEWS NATIONAL DESK
TEHRAN – ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said on Monday that the final tests of the country’s most advanced domestically-made satellite have been carried out.
Azari Jahromi made the remarks speaking during a visit to an exhibition in the Iranian capital where the country’s latest indigenized information technology achievements were put on display.
He said that Pars-1 Satellite will be delivered to the Iranian Space Agency next week.
From now on the experts of the Iranian Space Agency will focus on the construction of Nahid-2 Satellite which is a telecommunication satellite, the minister said.
Pars-1 Satellite is capable of taking images in the space at night.
Meanwhile yesterday Azari Jahromi said that domestic producers must keep on with up to date technology and try to gain markets overseas.
He said that technical knowledge of production to increase productivity is available inside our country.
He made the remarks on the sidelines of an exhibition to introduce achievements of indigenous advanced equipment in the National Information Network.
The minister called software planning and creativity as two essential production elements and stressed that these elements are available in Iran.
He went on to say that decreasing the price of local productions is essential, meaning that the cost of local products must be less than foreign ones.
Azari-Jahromi also urged companies to pay attention to after-sale services.
Dynamic technology is another factor that should not be neglected by domestic producers. To achieve this goal, research and development sections must not stop expanding their products and compete with foreign companies.
Referring to the local production’s security aspect, the minister stressed that local production is used to prevent enemies from accessing information, especially the military and defense infrastructures.
The production line of an indigenous cell phone in Maragheh city was kicked off, hoping that it reaches mass production soon, the official concluded.
